If it’s too dry, add a bit more water, but be aware that it probably does not need additional water, even if you think it does.

You may change this proportion depending on how dense you want plants to grow, but 3:1 is ideal to work in enough seeds. Peatlands are also often the home for many scarce animals and plants, which aren't found in any other type of habitat. If I really want the children to work the dough for a bit of fine motor development then I add the seeds once the dough has been mixed. Learn how to make a seed bomb using air dry clay – because when it comes to bees, every flower counts.If you’re having trouble finding vendors, you can use the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation’s Native Plant, Seed and Services Directory. Pick most of this out, but a little won’t hurt as long as it doesn’t affect the chemistry significantly. Seed balls are made with a mixture of dry clay, compost, and seeds and are a great way to spruce up abandoned lots or open grassy areas.

Seed balls become seed bombs when adopted by the urban guerrilla and chucked into places that will brighten and blossom from an area of dereliction to a wildlife haven. There are many ways to go about making seed bombs and many more reasons outside of guerilla gardening. In fact, this is as much part of our business as the products we sell and is an integral part of our ethos.

These easy to make DIY Seed Bombs are perfect small gifts (teacher appreciation, Mother’s Day, wedding favors,etc. Here’s what’s going on in my part of the upper middle class world: whenever a neighbor has a problem with another neighbor he or she bombards their neighbor’s house with seed bombs. When used for permaculture this is great, but what about a caveat where you advise viewers that it’s ILLEGAL to dump seed bombs on private property. Millie is making 3 types of seed balls – a simple version using clay only, a combination version that uses clay and fertiliser and version using clay from her own garden! Guerrilla gardening is great but every guerrilla must take responsibility for his or her actions when taking action in public spaces.

Think this would go down a treat in our outdoor areas and liven up National School Grounds Week which is happening next week. There is an old belief that when you walk around the flower three times it will remove any spells that have been cast on you! Clay is often from low lying or riparian areas, which also collect a significantly weedy seed bank from large areas of land. Once you have formed a ball with most of the seed and soil encases in clay – roll the damp seed bomb in a container of potting soil to coat the surface.

For this project, “air-dry” clay serves as the binding agent that holds everything together until the plant is ready to grow. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions. The mixture of clay and wool compost will dry out to preserve the seeds in perfect conditions to burst into life when they are lobbed into barren areas that could do with seeding with wildflowers. Clay provides structural integrity when dry, moisture retention, improved matrix-seed contact, and cohesion to your seed balls. If you are adding decorative dried flower petals to the outside, you’ll attach them now to the side facing up by pressing them into the clay.